Apps destroyed food delivery
Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing
Chewget@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Weird way to say broke people don’t order delivery…
jeffw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
stoly@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No. Delivery is broken. Fees commonly go to double the food cost just because a few companies own everything. It’s like ticket master.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That’s always how it’s been though. The difference is that in-house delivery is actually optimized for delivery volume, and restaurants which don’t have that volume or workflow just don’t have in-house delivery. When I drove pizza in college, I would take like 5 or 6 deliveries per hour. Turnaround time from getting to the restaurant and back out the door would be a minute or two, and I’d leave with at least three different orders That was good for $50/hr in tips during the dinner rush. Even a regular weeknight would be good for $150 in a 6 hour shift.
With the app ecosystem, it’s just impossible hit that kind of efficiency because you are almost always taking one order at a time, and you end up waiting on the restaurant most of the time.